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A Gateway to Resources
of Scholarly Societies - History. "This is one of a set of subject
pages created by compilers at the University of Waterloo Library to facilitate
access to websites maintained by or for scholarly societies across the world."

Società Dantesca
Italiana. On September 28th 1888 the Marquis E. Eroli made a gift
to the Society of his Dante collection, which constituted the initial holding
of the library-to-be. In addition to normal acquisitions, the library subsequently
acquired the Franchetti Collection (1907) and the Giuliani Collection (given
in permanent trust by the City Council of Florence in 1913). In 1939 the Vandelli
family donated the papers of Giuseppe Vandelli relating to his work on textual
variants in the manuscripts of the Commedia. These various collections together
form the historical section of a library that today contains about 22,000
volumes, 150 current periodicals (60 of them non-Italian) and 240 dead
periodicals. The library also owns 25 incunabula, 152 sixteenth-century books
and 8 manuscripts. In 1984 the Library acquired the Baranelli Collection,
in 1991 the Vandelli Collection of books, and in 1994 the Chiari Collection
(these last two are in the process of being catalogued). In addition to this
specialist library there is also a rich microfilm and photographic archive
(the microfilms alone numbering about 1500), which collects documentation
on every manuscript of Dante interest, for the exclusive use of the Editors
of the National Edition of his works. Besides the Society has recently begun
to store these microfilm images in electronic form (CD-ROM) to preserve the
material and has provided the users with suitable equipments to consult them
in the Society's seat. Library services include consultation (also through
a computer at users' disposal for the new accessions post 1989), borrowing,
photocopying of books, printer use. The Library rooms are open for consultation
and borrowing at the following times: Monday - Friday 09.30-13.30 and Thursday
09.30-17.30.

SISR
- Società Italiana di Storia della Ragioneria.. "The Società Italiana
di Storia della Ragioneria (SISR) arose under the auspices of the Academy
of Accounting Historians (USA), the Accounting History Society (Great Britain),
the Accounting History Association (Japan), the Institut Francais des Historiens
Comptables (France) and the Comité International des Historiens de la Comptabilité
(Belgium), on the occasion of the IVth International Conference of Accounting
History that took place in Pisa in August 1984; it has its premises in the
Faculty of Economics of the University of Pisa. The Society, being the heir
of the long Italian accounting tradition, intends to follow and implement
its “mission” assuring the prosecution of scientific studies; it aims therefore
to promote research in Accounting History, Business Economics, accounting
profession and public and private business accounting, to publish a specific
journal and organize conferences, meetings and workshops in order to find,
diffuse and maintain specific information and literature."

SISSCO, the Società
Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea on the web offers
services and electronic publications. Sissco gives a list of recent
news about the Society and his role, offers a Listserv for his members, a
list of his members CV's, a link to the yearly SISSCO Awards, information
about SISSCO conferences and also about contemporary history Workshops, Seminars
and "Call for papers". It gives also full access to the Annale SISSCO:
Il
Mestiere di Storico.

Società Numismatica
Italiana. "The Società Numismatica Italiana (Italian Numismatic
Association) is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1892. For
the first time ever it welcomed, among its members, the major Italian scholars
and collectors of the time, including S. Ambrosoli, the Gnecchi brothers,
Count Papadopoli, Professor A. Salinas, G. Sambon and C. Luppi. It is the
Company’s aim to further research and foster the study of coins, tesserae,
coin weights, medals and seals. Among its several activities it’s worth mentioning
the issue of Rivista Italiana di Numismatica e Scienze Affini, the oldest
scientific magazine in this field in Italy, yearly gathering qualified papers
and essays of Italian and foreign experts. The Association organizes workshops,
educational seminars and conferences hosted in collaboration with Scholars
and Numismatic Associations from all over the world. It has a library, accounting
for one of the largest specialized collections in Italy, open to non-members,
too. Società Numismatica Italiana celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1992.
Lately, it replaced its charter and is now starting up innovative activities
for the study and advancement of the knowledge of numismatics." (Library
and Secretariat: via Orti, 3 - I-20122 Milan, tel.: +39.02.55.19.49.70, e-mail:
biblioteca@numismaticaitaliana.it - e-mail: segreteria@numismaticaitaliana.it.)

SIHS
- Society for Italian Historical Studies, affiliated
to the AHA. "The Society for Italian Historical Studies is a professional
organization designed to encourage the study and teaching of Italian history
and culture. It promotes teaching, research, and publication in any period
or field of Italian history and culture, awards prizes to students and established
scholars for original contributions to these fields, sponsors conferences
and lectures, cooperates with other organizations and groups that share its
goals, promotes the exchange of ideas and information among all persons interested
in Italian history and culture.", President: Roland Sarti, 37 Rosemary Street,
Amherst, MA 01002; Executive Secretary–Treasurer, and Editor, Newsletter:
Alan J. Reinerman, Department of History, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
02167, (617) 552-3814, Email: alan.reinerman@bc.edu.

SIS
- Society for Italian Studies. "The Society for Italian Studies
is a registered charity which has as its object 'to advance public education
by furthering the study of Italy, Italian language, literature, thought, history,
society and arts in the United Kingdom and Ireland'. It does this through
its publications (the annual journal Italian Studies, and a series of Occasional
Papers), conferences (a residential conference is held every two years, with
a more limited non-residential event in London in alternate years) and its
Annual General Meeting and Colloquium (held in London in early January). It
also sponsors an annual Postgraduate Colloquium."

The Italian History Index is made of different pages which are always under
construction. You will find here Virtual Resources produced in Italy together
with other world-wide Resources that deal with the history of Italy. The Index
has and editorial board to select the "Best of the Italian History Index" and
specific maintainers: "Medieval Italian History" is maintained by Prof.Pietro
Corrao, University of Palermo and Prof.Roberto Delle Donne, University of Naples;
"Anthropological Italian History" is maintained by Alessandra Guigoni, "Military History" is maintained by Elena Sodini, University of Verona,
"E-teaching/e-learning" is maintained by Prof.Angelo Gaudio, University of Udine.
In the future, new maintainers will contribute to the development of other categories
in the Index.
The URL of this page is [societies.html].
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University Institute's Library and the History
& Civilisation Department .
The Italian History Index was created in April 1995 and became part of the WWW
VL History Network in May 1999.
The Italian History Index is sending a logo to the best Italian History
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History sites on the Internet made in Italy. Non-Italian sites on the history
of Italy are part of The Italian History Index but are not yet part of
this selection. To be elegible for this list of scientifically-evaluated sites,
all web-sites should also be accessible totally and freely to a world-wide public
without any kind of restriction. The Best of the
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